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Drunken driving arrest
PUBLISHED: October 2, 2008
A 49-year-old Manchester man was arrested by Chelsea police for second offense drunken driving at 7:16 p.m. Sept. 13.
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According to a police report, an officer was advised by dispatch to look out for a possible drunken driver. The 911 caller observed a red Ford pickup truck driving in an hazardous manner from Manchester.
The officer spotted the vehicle on Brown Drive and South Main Street, and observed it make a wide right turn into the left-turn lane on Main Street toward I-94.
The officer followed the car south on M-52 and noted the vehicle veering from the white fog line and over the center line, the report stated.
The officer turned on his overhead lights to make a traffic stop but the vehicle continued south, veering all the way across the oncoming lane to the opposite shoulder before returning to the southbound lane, then crossed the centerline again near Jerusalem Road.
During this time, the truck was clocked at 60 to 63 mph in a 55-mph zone, the report stated.
The officer turned on his siren to bring the car to a stop near Sager Road.
The officer noticed the odor of intoxicants on the driver and found an open 12-oz can of beer in the man's lap, and two unopened cans on ice in a cooler on the passenger seat, the report stated.
The man continued eating a hamburger while the officer questioned him.
The officer asked the man to turn off the engine and he tried, only then realizing the car was still in gear.
The driver admitted he had been drinking, but "not much," and could not remember which brand of fast food he was eating, even though the bag was on the seat, according to the report.
The driver failed field sobriety tests, and when asked where he had been drinking he replied, "Just drinking and driving," the report stated.
The driver pleaded with the officer to let him go, to follow him home, and to let him just park the truck where it stopped.
A preliminary breath test registered a .275 percent blood alcohol content, and the man was arrested, handcuffed and transported to the Chelsea Police Department for processing.
A records check showed the man's first offense for drunken driving was in 2001, the report stated.
The truck was parked at the Chelsea Proving Grounds and the man made arrangements with his wife to retrieve it.
The suspect was taken to Chelsea Community Hospital for a blood draw to confirm the blood alcohol content, which the man agreed to, but when they arrived he said he was being held against his will.
He was subsequently transported to the Washtenaw County Jail.
Pickup reported stolen
An officer was dispatched to a local car dealership at 11:15 a.m. Sept. 15 for a report of a pickup truck stolen off the lot.
The officer met with the sales manager, who said an employee discovered the new heavy-duty truck missing, along with a new large-capacity trailer and a tailgate from a different model of pickup.
According to a report, the ignition key was inside an undamaged steel lock box, but the sales manager said most employees had a master key.
The value of the truck was $52,700; the trailer, $7,300; and the tailgate $1,200, the report stated. The case was closed due to lack of leads.
Drunken driving arrest
Police arrested a 50-year-old Chelsea man with a long history of drunken driving convictions for the same offense and for driving without a license at 4 a.m. Sept. 14.
According to a police report, an officer was advised by dispatch to look out for a possible drunken driver on south Main Street driving a red Ford Taurus.
The officer turned his patrol car around when he spotted the vehicle, which turned onto Old Manchester Road.
The officer watched the vehicle hugging the shoulder of the road, and when it turned west on Old US-12 it began hugging the centerline, the report stated.
The officer stopped the vehicle at Old US-12 and Fieldstone Drive, and when the man tried to bring the car to a stop he had to swerve to avoid striking a mailbox.
The officer recognized the suspect as having a revoked driver's license since 1986, and seven prior drunk-diving convictions in Adrian, Chelsea, Ann Arbor, Romulus and Jackson since 1983, the report stated.
The suspect admitted drinking two beers, but he failed field sobriety tests and his preliminary breath test reading was .18 percent blood alcohol content.
He was arrested, processed and transported to the Washtenaw County Jail.
Outstanding warrant arrest
At 2:41 a.m. Sept. 18 a Chelsea officer was dispatched to meet with sheriff's deputies on Jackson Road to pick up a suspect arrested on an outstanding warrant.
According to the report the 42-year-old Chelsea man was arrested for failure to appear in court on a misdemeanor charge of driving with license suspended.
The suspect was transported to the Washtenaw County Jail.
Domestic violence report
Officers were dispatched to an apartment in the 200 block of Wilkinson Street at 11:22 p.m. Sept. 18 for a possible domestic violence complaint.
According to a report, the anonymous caller reported hearing loud yelling and cursing between a man and woman.
Officers arrived and through a window observed a man in the apartment near the door while a woman came to the door and let them in.
The male officer questioned the man outside the apartment while the female officer did the same with the woman inside.
Both subjects told officers essentially the same thing; that the couple had been arguing because the man had not been home in two days, and that no physical altercation occurred, according to the report.
The man also told police that he had a previous domestic violence arrest.
Officers stayed while the woman prepared for work and then left the scene.
Larceny, property damage
A Chelsea man came into the police department on Sept. 21 to report that his video game console was damaged and broken and several games were missing from his home in the 20100 block of Old US-12.
According to a report, when the man arrived home one of his neighbors told him she saw his ex-girlfriend and another woman enter the house earlier that day, then exit through the front door carrying a box of items and leave quickly.
He told police he had broken up with the woman a month and a half ago, and since then he had let her borrow his vehicle and she crashed it, and she had entered the house without permission.
The neighbor's description to police matched the ex-girlfriend, the report stated.
Contacted by phone, the suspect claimed the games were hers and refused to return them, and also took a variety of other items fro the house claiming that she owned them; but she denied damaging the video player.
The damage to the unit was estimated at $400 and the value of the missing games was set at $360, and the man told police he wanted to prosecute the woman.
Compiled by Staff Writer Edward Freundl from reports released by the Chelsea Police Department.
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